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How My Service Dog Helped Me Beat Breast Cancer
By Blandina Dominguez
As I reserve my Austin hotel room for the Might Texas Dog Walk, I reflect on my last year and how I didn’t think I would make it to attend this wonderful event.
On December 30, 2013, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. My ...

Not a Reject, A Rock Star!
By Amy Fey
Service Dogs, Inc. Graduate
Sponsor: Texas 1000
Hi! My name is Amy Fey. I have lived with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis in all my joints since I was 18 months old. I have always had to live a different modified lifestyle. I am the youngest in my family. I graduated from ...

Service Dogs, Inc. is a 26 year old nonprofit organization serving Texas. We operate from a 6-acre campus 30 minutes outside Austin, Texas, in Dripping Springs.
We adopt dogs from animal shelters and train them to assist individuals living with a significant loss of hearing or mobility. We invest one year and $20,000 into training each ...

By Monica Johnson
Editor’s note: Monica is on our wait list for a Service Dog. She is a counselor at St. David’s hospital. Her hobbies are swimming, scuba diving, wheelchair basketball and traveling. Monica was injured in a car accident in 1999.
Life is an amalgamation of experience that ebbs and flows, with suffering and joy, invariably ...

By H. Bruce Brim
Dog’s Name: Sandy’s Jax
Sponsor: Sandra Didlake
A little about me: My background, education, work, hobbies, family:
A petroleum engineer by degree, with a BS-PEN in 1979 from UT-Austin, followed by licensure as a professional engineer. I was previously employed by Sun (now Anadarko Petroleum), and currently work with a landman, geologist, and 3 office ...

Name:
Teresa ‘Terrie” Heemsbergen
A little about me: My background, education, work, hobbies, family:
I’m a 68 year old female who retired from 20+ years of teaching nursing students at two junior colleges in Central Texas. I have been a working Registered Nurse since 1967 to current, working part time adjunct for the college. I do not attend ...